[Request] old utility for connect Aquarium remote engine

[hgm]

Is there a similar tool to connect a UCI engine over the internet, rather than over a LAN?

Isn't that the same thing?

I always use my own adapter, connect.exe, for that. On the machine with the GUI I use it as engine, on the side with the engine I instruct it to act as server for that engine. As long as the connection is reliable enough, this works fine. (No good when I was playing in the Olympiad in Yokohama, and wanted to use my PC in Amsterdam for the engine, though.)

On a LAN RTHomeserver works without doing anything too technical: you just tell it thehost the ip address of the slave machine (found simply by entering "ipconfig" in the command prompt etc.) and the host auto-connects. Over the net wouldn't you need a more complex procedure?

My ISP won't allow me to download your tool, but I'm changing ISP tomorrow so I'll try again.

For the internet you also just need the IP address of the host. Seen from the connection tool there is no difference at all. The point is that the host machine might be in another LAN, which is hidden from the rest of the world through firewalls. So you have to reconfigure the firewalls for allowing the connection through the desired port. The tool would know nothing about this, other than that any attempt to connect would fail if you don't do it.